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The New Age was the leading socialist journal of its
day, and a major intellectual venue, introducing British readers to
Freud, Nietzsche, and Bergson, and playing a crucial role in
literary and artistic modernism. It published Ezra Pound, T.E.
Hulme, and Katherine Mansfield, and promoted Picasso, the
Futurists, the London Group, and the Vorticists, to name a few.
Often classed among the “modernist magazines”, the paper’s status
is somewhat complicated by its primary role as a political weekly.
However, its character was always unusual. The autodidactic streak
marking the Edwardian socialist press and its often provincial,
working-class readers was taken to a unique pitch in the New
Age. In format and breadth …

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Mead, Henry. "The New Age". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 January 2010
[https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=7214, accessed 21 January 2019.]

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